A California doctor is proposing floating abortion clinics to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico to avoid abortion bans that have been imposed on certain areas of the country.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a strict Texas law that will force all clinics to maintain high hospital standards, and will therefore likely shut down most abortion clinics in the state.
More than half (53 percent) of reproductive care clinics, doctors and clinical workers faced threats in 2014, according to recent studies. And conservative forces continue to push aggressive and restrictive antiabortion legislation that leaves women without safe access.
A federal judge ruled that an Indiana law that would have placed new restrictions on clinics that provide drug-induced abortions is unconstitutional on the grounds that the law makes an unfounded distinction between certain facilities and physician offices.
By Friday morning, thirteen abortion clinics in Texas became defunct after an appellate court issued a ruling Thursday that upheld a stringent anti-abortion law.
Abortion clinics argued that the law was just a way to get them shut down. An Alabama law that restricted abortion clinic doctors has been named unconstitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Massachusetts law Thursday that prohibited pro-life protestors from picketing directly in front of the entrances of abortion clinics.
